umbrellewort (Allionie), and évenifig primrose (Qenothera). Seed producers most 
frequently patronized include ragweed (Ambrosia), queen's-delight (Stillingia) , 
hairy puccoon (Lithospermum), wild sweet pea (CGracca), and dayflower (Commelina). 
Bobwhite.—-The outstanding finding was that while bobwhite quail are 
relatively sedentary (ranging over 5 to 40 acres) both in summer and in winter, 
their ranges for these seasons may be widely separated, Thus under existing 
conditions restricted areas are not adapted to management, as the birds may 
entirely depart in winter from the tract upon which they were produced in summer, 
Continued research mey show, however, that environment may be modified so as to 
heck or perhaps entirely eliminate this winter migration. Individual banded 
birds were recovered ‘at distances varying up to 26 miles from the original 
station. The average number of young in coveys trapped varied considerably, 
beims 10 in 1932, '4’'to:5 in 1935,)\ ond 87 in 1954." Total production on 16 sections 
Was estimated for 1932 at 750 cir bird to 13.6 acres); 193,300. (1:34); 1934, 
S50 -(1229,2): and 1935, 450 (1:22.7). In this period, one of drought, the 
country was not Highly productive for quail, but continued investigation is urged 
in the hope that management practices may be developed that will materially 
increase the yield as well.as hold the birds for the winter on. their rearing 
grounds. 
The birds are strictly single brooded. The popular belief in plural 
rearings seems to result from hunters seeing different-sized young together with 
Older birds, The readiness, however, with which quail families associate within 
the limits of normal covey size sufficiently explains all the unusual combina- 
tions observed. Separate successive rearings are impossible through lack of 
time, 
Important food items of the bobwhite include seeds of wild sweet pea 
(Cracca), beggarweed (Meibomia), prairie clover (Psoralea), pencilflower 
(Stylosanthes), black locust (Robinia), ragweed (Ambrosia), marsh elder (Iva), 
dayflower (Commelina), puccoons (Lithospermum), sumacs (Rhus), spurges (Croton, 
Stillingie, Dichrophyllum, Tragia), amaranth (Amaranthus), sunflower (Helianthus) , 
ead bull erass (Paspalum), 
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MANAGEMENT STUDIES 
Observation from closed automobiles was found less disturbing to the 
“birds than any other method, as well as having advantages in the way of insuring 
comfort-and keeping equipment readily available. 
frapping.—~Such cars were used in connection with trapping; the prairie 
chickens were caught in the oak motts or thickets where they seek shelter in the 
heat of the day by driving them into nets of fyke design, spread around and over 
the mott. The best hours for netting are from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The nets 
are of one-inch mesh and should be 8 to 10 feet high and 40 to 60 feet wide. 
The fyke is some 30 inches in-diameter and 8 feet long and is quickly removeble. 
The net has ropes along the margins, querterminch at the top and half-inch at 
the bottom, Firmly attached stout iron stakes serve to hold the lower edge 
close to the ground. The wings are extended taut at right angles, preferably 
with a clear runway paralleling the inner side, and the whole net is set close 
to the dusting holes of the birds at the edge of the mott. The birds retreat 
only to the other side and readily return to their loafing place. They are 
slowly urged toward the net and when all ere under the overhanging margin, they 
ere driven into the fyke by one man at each end and one in the middle. The 
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